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02/10/12--05:50: Hiding in Plain Sight (chan 1624076)

“Hide/Seek,” at the Brooklyn Museum through February 12, can hardly claim to survey gay art or its impact. It would only be more sprawling and incoherent than it is. What it can do, wonderfully, is to probe the limits of acceptance—and it is the subject of a longer review, in my latest upload. It is [...]


02/13/12--05:35: When Modernism Shocked (chan 1624076)

If Modernism requires one’s full attention, Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair leaves one little choice. With its single long plane of wood tilted only slight back, in fire-engine red, and its perfectly flat blue seat, it all but screams, “Sit up straight!” One can imagine being strapped to its blue armrests, their yellow tips [...]


02/15/12--05:58: Significant Others (chan 1624076)

One may leave “Facetime,” at On Stellar Rays through February 19, desperate for some face time. Where exactly are the faces? When the show, which originated in Copenhagen, departs the Lower East Side, will it have taken all human contact with it? Or do these artists know something you don’t know? Definitely, and you may [...]


02/17/12--05:53: In His Dotage (chan 1624076)

Damien Hirst may not know much about painting, but he sure knows how to get people talking. With colored circles on a white field, each color planned and executed entirely by assistants, not a hint of deeper meanings or deeper intentions can get in the way of talk. With more than three hundred dot paintings [...]


02/20/12--06:01: Projecting Bearden (chan 1624076)

When Romare Bearden looked at the black community, he looked with passion but not reverence. He looked at Modernism the same way. He took Cubism’s crisp edges and sudden leaps of the imagination, and he gave them jazz rhythms. He rooted them in a place and time, but a shifting place in time, from North [...]


02/22/12--05:45: Smear Campaign (chan 1624076)

I have to like images of women when men have the last word. Of course, I would say that, but I am not altogether kidding when it comes to the images of women in “Campaign.” Side by side at C24 Gallery, through February 25, Glen Fogel and Adam Helms display the most direct and haunting [...]